he could not do greater honour to those that he favoured then to send them of his salt. _Archilocus_ as _Origen_ alledgeth against _Celsus_, among other things, reproacheth _Lycambas_ to have violated a very holy and sacred Mystery, of the amity conceived betwixt them by the salt & the common table. And upon Saint _Matthew_ speaking of _Judas_, he had not (saith he) any respect either to the remembrance of their common table, or to salt or bread which we did eat together. And _Lycophron_ in a poem of _Alexander_ called salt ἁγνίτης purifying and cleansing; alluding to that of _Euripides_, that the sea washeth away all faults from men, for that the sea which the _Pythagoreans_ because of its bitternesse and saltnesse, call it _Saturnes_ tears, and a fift Element, and is nothing but salt dissolved in water. And certes it is a thing very admirable, the great quantity that there is of salt; sith that we hold it for an infallible maxime, that God & Nature made nothing in vain. For besides that there is found thereof in the earth, part in liquor which they scum off, part in yce, as at _Halle_ in _Saxony_, and at _Barre_ in _Provence_, part in hard rocks, as in _Teplaga_ a land of Negroes, where they carry it more then two hundred miles off upon their heads, and transport from hand to hand by relayes, even to the Kingdome of _Tombur_, serving for money that passeth for currant in all those quarters, as it doth also in the Province of _Caindu_ in East Tartarie. According to _Marc. Pole_ in his 2 book, 38 chap. and also that if they have it not for all purposes in their mouths, their gums rot, because of the extream heats that raign there, accompanied with corrupting Moorish moistures; for which reason they must hold thereof continually moistening it with a thing that doth hinder putrefaction.